Show ACCUSATIONS DENIED BY HEAD fAD Of SERVICE Secretary Ballinger On Stand Continues to Contradict Pinchot Witnesses SAYS CHIEF NEWELL TOLD SOME FALSEHOODS Denies Projects Projects Projects pf of Went We at But Would Like to See Newell Newel Ousted WASHINGTON April CO Secre tary tar Ballinger Bahlinger continued to contradict and deny don statements and accusations against him from froni the witness c H stand in the Pinchot investigation today He was still under direct cl ex ox examination examination when tho the committee ad ado adjourned adjourned d until next Thursday Passing from the subject of Alas AIM Alaskan han kan coal cORl lands Mr Ballinger launched into a Justification of or his attitude altitude to toward toward ward the reclamation service His most Important denial was on the charge made mado by b F H Nowell and Chief Engineer A P Davis of the I service that ho lie misrepresented to the I service that the reclamation service senica has recommended tho the restoration of or the water power sites siles withdrawn by b I Secretary Garfield The reclamation service officials swore Mr r ordered them to the restorations ns Nr D swore Just as pasi positively that he h made no such order ordel although he felt the lands had hud been Illegally withdrawn and should hould S be re restored restored stored to entry and had so stated to the reclamation officIals Mr Bahlinger made mado no secret of tho fact that he would like to see Mr lIr Newell Nowell superseded as head of ot the tho rec reclamation reclamation bureau Not Unfriendly He Hc told tho the committee e he did not have havo much Confidence in lu ad administrative ability although lie lio de do denied nied hostility to the tho th government ov rec reclamation policy and said shiel many man oC or the ibe projects had great possibilities for the tho development of ot the West As Aslie ho lie was asked by hy l his lawyer why wh hI hId h did d d not make malto a change in the tho reclamation reclamation mation matlon service Mr MI Ballingor Ballinger retorted sharply Because my 01 hands have hao been bren up lip lipfor for tor months and I have not noL been able to get set them down Attorney said tonight he hoped to finish direct examination of Mr by midday next Thurs Thursday day dar when he will turn over oer to the opposing counsel for tion Mr probably will be he beon heon on the tho stand for tor throe three days dars moro at least Two To hours of tod s session were consumed by b the committee over the question of granting Attorney Bran Brandeis Brandeis deis dels request for tor papers and docu documents moats ments bearing l on the tho summary of or the Glavis charges for fOl the attorney ney ne general Mr Vertrees charged there was a conspiracy afoot against advisors of ofa o oa ofa a president who happened to be lIe dis distrustful trustful as to tho the conspirators He In Intimated Intimated Intimated that former Secretary Garfield end former Forester were the chief conspirators For Jor the thc first time Mr Braudeis Brandeis openly stated slated his belief hell f that tho the attorney attorney attorney ney had anticipated his summary with the Idea of making that appear prop proper er or which was not proper when whon done doneHo Ho lie had reference to the dismissal of his lii client L In R a by b tho the pros pres president I I ident on September 13 in last laRt and was wan Intimating that tho the attorney C general months after that date had bad drawn up the tho summary in an effort to justify I an au error of oC the president and In order to make the deception complete had bait dated da Led It two to days dl before the presidents presidents dents action was taken |